Not so active for while...

For those asking me questions and/or needing help.

I am not ignoring your request.

Currently trying to get my store open by this Friday 2013-07-19.

I answer all mail late at night and on breaks, currently not able to do server work.

Wish me luck and I'll be back to bother everyone very soon.

Good luck Michael, hope they knock down your doors.

Good luck on your new shop.  I hope it is a very successful business.

Am sure you get it done by Friday, but good luck anyway!

Succes with you new shop.

looks awsome.... I am sure you will do well... good parking too (so important). Good luck, but I dont think you will need it : )

Wait a minute... .is that a VW beetle I see in your car park ;-)

I wish you the best of luck 

Thanks everyone!

Yes, excellent parking and on one of the busiest streets in Jacksonville, average of 300k plus cars a day.

Will also have a PC drop off and repair station going on, 24 hour turn around on PC fixes at flat rate of $79.95.

Would you guys pay for services like that?

I noticed there are a couple of idiot poles next to what appears to be a lamp post or telephone pole. None in front of the building to prevent people from driving their cars through the glass into the store. LOL

A lot of places where i am have them. Usually only put in after someone drives into the building.

Sorry, first thing that popped into my head when i saw them.

I always wanted to open a computer store. Just never could come up with the cash to get anything started.

Good Luck.

 Well, lol, when it happens... that will too.

It's a lease so leave that up to the owners, and my insurance. lol

It is the store sign. Funny how it is protected right, and it is heavy iron embedded in concrete.

Go figure.

 If it wasn't a 2 hour drive I would come buy something.

That "Thrift Shop" song being a huge hit has got to be good for business also.

Here i reply to keep this post on top before it dies again :P

 plan on playing that song every hour.. lmao

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes

good luck for your store : )
I wish you great success

I love thrift shops, an Ann Taylor top for $10.00 instead of $60?  Any day my friend, any day.

Stocking the store like from the TV show, "Storage Wars."

There are auctions all over Jacksonville everyday!

It has always amazed me on what people put in storage and just what "forget" it is there?

Best of luck.  I already have my eyes on those hard hats.

What have I gotten into? UGH, so much sorting!

If you get a wild hair up your asses to go do the Storage Wars thing... think twice.

We have bought out three other thrift stores and have ten storage units waiting to come in still!

One storage unit had 50 complete business terminal stations WinXP Pro, LCD, complete systems, cost $150 for unit, they were hidden in the back.

Saturday is the big day! Nervous as shit!

We couldn't ask for a better location, in the center of our 874.6 sq mi (2,265 km²) city. Largest in the US.. lol

 Sounds like a great price to me! The big box stores don't even pretend to be able to match that kind of service, do they - Especially at that price?

My advice...

Take those butcher block knife sets off the shelf or shrink wrap them or something. That's a law suit waiting to happen.  ( little kids running around... )

 Yes, I will be doing that tomorrow.

Just finished installing an eight cam DVR for lawsuit protection.

I should probably take the ax off the floor too. lol

Agreed. Dangerous pointy objects should at least be on the top shelf.

I worked retail once; every department at some time.  I got put into clothing because I actually cared about doing my job correctly.  Of all the departments, clothing was the hardest to maintain.  It was a constant battle to keep them in order.  I spent a couple of hours one day sorting and folding jeans, getting all the sizes in order to have some jerk come in and trash my work.  I told the "gentleman" that all the jeans were in order and if any size bin was empty it was because we were out of that size.  The jerk ignored me completely and continued to trash my work.  Since the jerk was a customer, I had to stand there and say nothing. 

 OK, how about this.. lol

That should work. And it will prevent the dangerous pointy objects from falling off the top shelf and sticking into someones head.

 So they pick up more speed on the way down?..  joking of course

 I am in rare form today I am bored, stressed, lacking sleep,, and at my anxiety limit do to possibly over dosing on coffee.

I had to do community service at a non profit resale shop once I worked getting all their electronics in working or and all the computers that the schools had donated up and going and most of the time listed them on Ebay for them cause they got more money that way, even though they were "non profit" they still was out to make as much as they could cause they then used to money to feed the homeless and buy stuff for the kids that were in underfunded schools.. and was prolly the most legit help to the community setup I myself have ever seen run, they actually cared for people and was out to help the less fortunate, they would let homeless people come in and pick out free clothes and send them away with a bag of food even, BUT I SEEN the sickest thing I have personally ever witnessed in my life while I was there,, come to find out when people donate clothes that some people even donate their old underwear, and one would think that stuff like that would be instant trashed but NO.. I was trying to help the lady who ran it go through the donations one day and when she got to the clothes and I seen the underwear i said "we just trash these immediately right?"  .. to which she said "NO WE DO NOT,, we inspect the inside and if they are not TOO BAD we go ahead and put them out for sale" .. I almost puked and refused to "inspect the inside" .... I just walked away and back to the electronics department!

oh wow its huge! Good luck with it all Michael, well that's it now you've got a grown up job no more playing on you PC! It all looks great, so much hard work for you but you will make success :) 

 I'm not doing it all! OMG there is no way. I will be doing the same thing like this, just from there.

Funny I called about consignment software, talked to the sales guys, ended up hiring me to work on their SEO.. weird how my jobs come along..

Thanks for the advice Michael. I'll be happy to compensate you if you can help me get back on top for 'consignment software' ;)

I paid a fair amount of $$ to a guy in England who (like many in SEO) claims he has the secret. His explanation is that too many 'bad sites' are linking to our site.

On the other hand of course Cutts and others at Google say there are over 200 components to their algorithm. I'll be curious to see what we can do!

 RE:

 Please don't use that as a word.

Hey Newt .... what kind of gun do you keep next to the cash register?

I loved reading this thread... you guy's are so witty!  Hope your shop is a success Newton.

 I'm from Texas,,  I spell the word exactly how I say it!

 RE:

 Bull.   I can't stand it.   It makes you come across as a zit faced teenager that developed the entirety of their linguistic skills in an aol chat room.  If however, that description befits you, please continue.

 I'm not sure what Jacksonville is like but if it was in Orlando I would suggest something fully automatic with a magazine capacity of 30 or more.

 Well it,s official... As of now I will separate myself from that word entirely. Would not mind being a teenager again, but damn sure do not want to come across as one, one with acne problems at that! LOL

Very good.  I'll consider the matter closed.

LOLLL

 No gun will be kept in the store.

Cash register is bolted to the counter, if they want it they can have all they want.

Orlando is horrible compared to here.

Now I do have an ax sitting behind the counter just to keep it off the floor.

lol @ newt going bat shit crazy with an axe defending his thrift shop!!  MY GOD I HAVE THE IMAGE IN MY HEAD AND IM ROLLING ... IT FREAKING HURTS IM LAUGHING SO HARD!!

i got tears coming out!

Oh Newt, didn't anyone ever tell you not to bring an axe to a gun fight?  I once got gas at a station right outside of Jacksonville, the guy inside taking the money for the gas was packing a 9mm Glock with a side holster.

Mike, Good Luck tomorrow, Hope they rock your walls!!!!

 LMFAO @ the boonAXE killer! lol

 HaHa, I got to get to bed... open at 9am

Looks like its going to work...

1st day not to bad, $1200, average of $37k a month, I can work with that.

Well after two months, the store is doing OK, could be better.

Easy money for sure and a better work environment than at home.

If you have one of those advertisement papers; like the thrifty ones; then an advert in one might help to draw in more customers.

 Have ads on the back of Winn-Dixie grocery stores receipts in the area.

Will do more later, thanks.

Waiting to be open six months for grand opening and an ad blitz.

keep the knives and axe handy, i hear the USA will be overrun by Zombies soon.

USA should follow Canada's lead on Zombies. They seem to have it covered.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueBZuZAoglE